Guest Post: It's All About The Men!

Author Lorelie Brown filling in for the day with some hotties to get your motor running. You can also find Lorelie on Twitter at @loreliebrown. Her debut novel, Jazz Baby, is available to purchase at Samhain Publishing and a KB recommended read.

Katiebabs thought she locked this place up right and tight, but I knew better. I found the spare key she keeps in the backyard, under the life-sized statue of Ryan Reynolds. Actually, I guess you could say it was *in* the statue. You really don’t want to know what I had to do to get the key. Let’s just say our Katiebabs is a strange, strange girl… Ooh, lookie! She left the liquor cabinet unlocked. Mwahaha!

Anyhoo, some of y’all might know I’m on twitter. Frequently. Oh, ok, all freaking day. I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM, STOP LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY. I also happen to like pictures of hot guys. Thankfully, I’ve found a way to combine the two. Gawd bless Twitpic.

Are you surprised I managed to work in hot guys? Then you don’t know me very well, do you?

I’ve also found a strange cheerleader section of my personality. I have a blast tweeting pictures of hotties at my friends and followers when they do something awesome. Finish a proposal? Get a picture. Make word count for the day? Get another picture. Get through all your grading? At certain points of the year (midterms, finals) you win multiples.

But the part that makes it a challenge is how different everyone’s tastes are. Some people are into arms. Cut, strong, arms a girl could grab and cling on to for the ride.

Some people like the tall, skinny, slightly-geeky type.

Others want blond with beards. (That one’s tough. I’ve got it in the back of my mind for a certain someone, but I have yet to be able to find any. Hrmm.)

So you’ve got to wonder how that factors into the romance writing. When I describe the hero I’m thinking of, is the reader picturing someone entirely different?

I wrote Micah from Jazz Baby without a specific guy in mind. Just an image in my head. After I wrote it, I saw From Here to Eternity and Montgomery Clift. (I had plenty of other issues with that movie, but Montgomery Clift sure wasn’t one of them.) He wasn’t exactly dead on in the looks department, but there was a liquid, deliberate grace to his every move. Enough for my jaw to drop open and me to run off and collect every picture of Clift I could find.

So tell me, those of you who’ve read Jazz Baby: Does he look anything like you pictured Micah? And even if you haven’t read it, you have my permission to wax on at length about his old skool charm. ;)

 
And just for fun, a sneak peek at the hero I’m currently writing.